Investment Risk: An Amplification Tool for Social Movement Campaigns Globally and Locally

Aidan Ricketts’ latest offering examines emerging corporate campaigning models that have been employed in global campaigns and ways in which these techniques can be effectively deployed in local grassroots campaigns. His article focuses on the community campaign that has so far effectively delayed the operations of coal seam gas companies in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

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Testimonials

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

2014-04-16T10:39:45+00:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

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Mike Miller, Organise Training Centre

Organising does two central things to rectify the problem of power imbalance. It builds a permanent base of people power so that dominant financial and institutional power can be challenged and held accountable to values of greater social, environmental and economic justice. And it transforms individuals and communities, making them mutually respectful co-creators of public life, rather than passive objects of decisions made by others.

2014-03-30T08:16:08+00:00

Organising does two central things to rectify the problem of power imbalance. It builds a permanent base of people power so that dominant financial and institutional power can be challenged and held accountable to values of greater social, environmental and economic justice. And it transforms individuals and communities, making them mutually respectful co-creators of public...

Charlotte Ryan, ‘Rhyming Hope and History’ 2005

Individuals may be silently or vocally disenchanted with their reality, many complain to friends and co-workers. They dream of other possibilities but can enter the political process proactively only when they form a collective actor; an organisation sharing values, mission and strategies. Without an organisation, individual impact on political discourse is limited.

2014-03-30T08:04:35+00:00

Individuals may be silently or vocally disenchanted with their reality, many complain to friends and co-workers. They dream of other possibilities but can enter the political process proactively only when they form a collective actor; an organisation sharing values, mission and strategies. Without an organisation, individual impact on political discourse is limited.

Michael Albert, ‘The trajectory of change’

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society's defining relations.

2014-03-30T09:07:42+00:00

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society’s defining relations.

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